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World’s strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk
Credit: Credit: Nitesh Mittal, KTH Stockholm At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has...
Small birds almost overheat while feeding their young
For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University...
PNNL successfully vitrifies three gallons of radioactive tank waste
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have...
Scientists’ new way to identify microscopic worm attacking coffee crops
The plants which produce one of the most popular drinks in the world, coffee, are targeted by a microscopic worm,...
Pay-backs to Africa from the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets
Credit: Shingirai S. Nangombe Africa is arguably one of the regions most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change. With...
Tailor-made synthesis of cyclic chemicals by means of enzymes
Credit: Bielefeld University Penicillin-based antibiotics contain a five-membered hydrocarbon cycle, additionally incorporating a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. Nadine Zumbrägel,...
Mutation discovered to protect against Alzheimer’s disease in mice
Credit: © RIKEN National Science Institute Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a mutation that can...
Hydrogen peroxide assists sexual reproduction in spruce
Credit: Maria Breygina Plant physiologists from MSU proved for the first time that dangerous reactive oxygen species that are often...
Exercise beats genetics in determining amount of body fat
CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 16, 2018)--With obesity now a global epidemic, there is increased focus on risk factors that contribute to...
EMBO Gold Medal 2018 awarded to Marek Basler and Melina Schuh
Heidelberg, 16 May 2018 - The recipients of the EMBO Gold Medal 2018 are Czech microbiologist Marek Basler and German...
Cell type switch helps colon cancer evade treatment, study suggests
Credit: Schmidt et al., 2018 Researchers in Germany have discovered that colon cancers are often resistant to existing drug treatments...
Hippo waste causes fish kills in Africa’s Mara River
Credit: Christopher Dutton (Millbrook, NY) Ecologists have long known that agricultural and sewage pollution can cause low oxygen conditions and...
Drug to treat bleeding may benefit some stroke patients, study finds
Patients with stroke caused by bleeding on the brain (intracerebral haemorrhage) may benefit from receiving a drug currently used to...
Case Western Reserve, Lucid Diagnostics sign agreement on Barrett’s Esophagus detector
CLEVELAND--Case Western Reserve University and Lucid Diagnostics, a subsidiary of publicly traded New York-based medical device company, PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq:...
MN childcare programs focused on nutrition and physical activities, study finds
(Minneapolis, MN) - Existing state and local programs focused on good nutrition and physical activities for children have led to...
More choices for treating insomnia in cancer survivors: Acupuncture and cognitive behavioral therapy
ASCO Perspective "We know that sleep is critical to the health of patients with cancer, from active cancer care through...
Stroke prevention drug combo shows promise, study says
If you've had a minor stroke or a transient ischemic stroke (TIA), taking the clot-preventing drug clopidogrel along with aspirin...
Diagnosing breast cancer with an imaging pill
For women, mammograms are a sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary, annual ritual. But this procedure doesn't always provide accurate results, and...
Researchers combine wearable technology and AI to predict the onset of health problems
A team of Waterloo researchers found that applying artificial intelligence to the right combination of data retrieved from wearable technology...
FutureNeuro and GreenLight Medicines partner to develop treatments for epilepsy
Dublin, 16 May 2018 - A new partnership between FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for Chronic and Rare Neurological diseases...
